Insight: Mississippi pardons benefited whites by big margin (Reuters)

Started by newswarrior, Jan 21, 2012, 02:33 PM

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Reuters - Former Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour's grants of commutations or pardons to more than 200 prisoners, all but eight in his final days in office, disproportionately benefited white offenders among a predominantly black prison population, a Reuters analysis found.